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Graham Sinclair
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Long term investor. Sustainable investment strategist. Adjunct professor.
“The free market is cool until you need a regulated market.” - @marcaross.

Mundus sine caesaribus.
I walk therefore I am.

#sustainability #strategy #investment #cdr
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Grey weather on the Mainline today. I grieve the crossing over of Charles Handy, the philosopher and business thinker.

What he called (w twinkle in his blue eyes) a “management guru…or charlatan(!)”.

A better human.
May he inspire you too toward your purpose.

www.linkedin.com/posts/graham...
Prof Jagolinzer knows.
Pay attention.
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Caine, in what happened when the military invaded Maduro’s compound: “On arrival into the target area, the helicopters came under fire, and they replied to that fire with overwhelming force in self-defense.”

We’re going to be reading that sentence for years.
January 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
More consequential break with international order than 24 February 2022?

Every free democracy coveted by thug neighboring countries is at risk now.

All of Europe will need to actively increase defenses against imperial Russia from the Arctic to the Black Sea, starting with brave Ukraine.
January 3, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Un-American.
Anti-capitalism.
Floridaman maximus.
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Does the once-coveted FIFA peace prize mean nothing anymore??
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
.@carolecadwalla.bsky.social is all of us this morning:
"I woke up this morning with a clear idea of something I wanted to write before ‘back to school’ Monday. But then I opened my phone and saw that the USA has gone full rogue state..." How to Survive the Broligarchy newsletter, 3 January 2026.
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Trump’s fossil fuel corruption spree can’t stop the inevitable move to cleaner, less expensive energy: “Through November, 92% of new power capacity added to the grid in 2025 came in the form of solar, wind, or storage.” www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Chart: Clean energy remains dominant in the US — despite Trump
Trump spent much of 2025 boosting fossil fuels and blocking renewables, but 92% of new power additions through November were solar, wind, or batteries.
www.canarymedia.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Mafia vibes.

Corruption.
Trump signals on Fox News that he may be invading Mexico and seizing Claudia Sheinbaum next. The message here is unequivocal: the Western Hemisphere is mine. I am the hegemon.
Trump says "something is gonna have to be done" about Mexico and President Claudia Sheinbaum in response to a question about whether the Venezuelan strike was a "message" to her government.
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Unable to release the Epstein Files by a constantly extending deadline, CAN plan and execute a foreign kidnapping over a golf weekend.
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Corruption.
“They should say great job,” he said in an interview on Fox News. “They shouldn’t say ‘Oh, gee, maybe it’s not constitutional.’”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Update from Tyler Pager
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.
President Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.
January 3, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Grim news.
BREAKING: The United States appears to have begun bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes are underway. War is here.
January 3, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Corruption.
Unverified: chatter in diplomatic circles that RU were to exchange Venezuela for control over Ukraine.

For what it’s worth. Russia’s actual reaction (beyond the statement of “condemnation”) will show what’s true.
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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As @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social @patrickbayer.bsky.social & I show in a @psrm.bsky.social paper on the effects of the Ukraine conflict, this is the time for the EU to go bold. The political economy is ofc not simple but the politics is actually relatively clear and effective:

bsky.app/profile/fgen...
🚨 @patrickbayer.bsky.social, @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social and I have a paper entitled “Energy Transition, Financial Markets and EU Interventionism: Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis” cond. accepted at @psrm.bsky.social.

Text: federica-genovese.com/downloads/Ba...

Gist of the paper in this 🧵 :

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January 3, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Bad thing I see here is 3 justices have no limit on how far they will go to appease Trump.
December 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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What happens when you sideline the experts, put incompetent people in charge, have no foreign policy process, and think you have a personal connection with Putin? You get this embarrassing mess. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership
As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The geopolitical importance of the US siege of Venezuela happening in synchronicity with China’s “exercises” around Taiwan: we’re entering the era post international law, and the West is losing the war of narratives. China has a better (though false) story about Taiwan than the US about Venezuela.
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Exactly.

Just dumb and dumber cosplay of governance from Florida.

Kakistocracy set to 11/10.
What is the mechanism to prevent Putin from taking out Zelenskyy or Xi Jinping from taking out Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te in the same way Trump has just done with Maduro? Moscow and Beijing saw Venezuela as an ally, but they’re also noting the silver lining for them here.
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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They fired all the generals who wouldn't go along, then they kicked all the reporters out of the Pentagon.
January 3, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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I know several oil barons, I’ve had the oil and gas industry as clients in a past life: none of them want the Venezuelan oil, it’s dog shit quality and getting the PDVSA fields up to modern standards would take 20 years! It’s just trump being stuck in 1987
At this point the oil barons hardly even care (they can pivot to renewables too). It’s just gender and internal combustion brain
It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.
January 3, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind
January 3, 2026 at 9:34 AM